2024
Rohrer P. L., Bujok R., Van Maastricht L., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). The timing of beat gestures affects lexical stress perception in Spanish. Talk presented at Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands. 2024-07-02 - 2024-07-05.
Speech is a crucial aspect of our everyday life and our primary form of communication. But while it appears simple on the surface is actually quite a complicated task. How do we take in a bunch of sound waves and interpret them as meaningful elements such as words and sentences? And how does non-verbal information such as gestures affect our perception of speech?
In my PhD research I investigated how visual cues such as up-and-down beat gestures of the hand can influence the perception of lexical stress (i.e., which syllable is emphasized), and thus change the word you perceive (e.g., OBject or obJECT). I found that speech is more than what we hear and that what we see also has impactful effects on our speech perception. Find out more about my research below.Publications
Bujok, R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues. Language & Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241258162
Rohrer, P. L., Bujok, R., Van Maastricht, L., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Non-referential Beat Gesture Timing Influences Lexical Stress Perception in Spanish: Furthering the Scope of the Manual McGurk Effect. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 702-706, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-142
Cos, F., Bujok, R., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Test-retest reliability of audiovisual lexical stress perception after >1.5 years. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 871-875, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-176
Bujok, R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). Visible lexical stress cues on the face do not influence audiovisual speech perception. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 259-263, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-53
Preprints of yet unpublished manuscripts
Bujok, R., Maran, M., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Beat gestures facilitate lexical access in constraining sentence contexts. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8ntjm
Bujok, R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Beat gestures can influence on-line spoken word recognition. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6gn3d
Bujok, R., Peeters, D., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Beating stress: evidence for recalibration of word stress perception. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9sua6
Presentations
Talks
2024
Bujok R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Beat gestures can affect audiovisual lexical stress perception immediately. Talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2024). Edinburgh, Scotland. 2024-09-04 - 2024-09-07.
2023
Mok, I., Bujok R., & Bosker, H. R. (2023). Visual articulatory gestures guide audiovisual speech perception of lexical stress but only in noise. Talk presented at the 8th Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN 2023). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2023-09-13 - 2023-09-15.
2023
Bujok R., Peeters, D., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2023). When the beat drops – beat gestures recalibrate lexical stress perception. Talk presented at the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023). Barcelona, Spain. 2023-04-26 - 2023-04-28.
2022
Bosker, H. R., & Bujok R. (2022). Recalibrating lexical stress perception with lexical context and manual beat gestures. Talk presented at the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2022). York, UK. 2022-09-07 - 2022-09-09.
2022
Bujok R., Peeters, D., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). Recalibration of lexical stress perception can be driven by visual beat gestures. Talk presented at the Dag van de Fonetiek 2022. Utrecht, NL. 2022-12-16 - 2022-12-16.
2022
Bujok R., Peeters, D., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). Do manual beat gestures recalibrate the perception of lexical stress?. Talk presented at the Psychonomic Society - 63rd Annual Meeting. Boston, USA. 2022-11-17 - 2022-11-20.
2022
Bujok R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). Visible lexical stress cues on the face do not influence audiovisual speech perception. Talk presented at Speech Prosody 2022. Lisbon, Portugal. 2022-05-23 - 2022-05-26.
2022
Bujok R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). The role of visual articulatory vs. gestural cues in audiovisual lexical stress perception. Talk presented at DGfS-Workshop: Visual Communication. New Theoretical and Empirical Developments (ViCom 2022). Virtual meeting. 2022-02-23 - 2022-02-25.
2022
Bujok R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2021). Lexical stress perception is influenced by seeing a talker’s gesture, but not face. Talk presented at the 19th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM 2021). Virtual meeting. 2021-11-04.
2021
Bujok R., Bultena, S., McQueen, J. M., & Broersma, M. (2021). Accent adaptation through error-based learning. Talk presented at EDLL 2021 - International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language. Tübingen, Germany. 2021-03-10 - 2021-03-12.
Posters
2024
Cos F., Bujok R., & Bosker, H. R. (2024). Test-retest reliability of audiovisual stress perception after >1.5 years. Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, NL.
2023
Bujok R., Peeters, D., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2023). Beat gestures can drive recalibration of lexical stress perception. Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2023 (PaPE 2023), Nijmegen, NL.
2023
Bujok R., Peeters, D., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2023). Beat gestures can drive recalibration of lexical stress perception. Poster presented at Donders Poster Session 2023, Nijmegen, NL.
2022
Bujok R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). Not all visual cues to lexical stress affect audiovisual speech perception: beat gestures vs. articulatory cues. Poster presented at IMPRS Conference 2022, Virtual meeting.
2022
Bujok R., Meyer, A. S., & Bosker, H. R. (2022). Beat gestures influence audiovisual lexical stress perception, while visible facial cues do not. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2022), Virtual meeting.
Academic Contributions
Supervisor
Co-supervising Ivy Mok’s Master thesis titled “We see what we hear; sometimes we hear what we see.” (2022).
Co-organizer and Chair
GESPIN 2023 conference, technical support, organization and chair (2023); Lunch talk committee, MPI for Psycholinguistics (2021 - 2024)
Member Research Assessment Committee
Tilburg University: Language, Communication and Cognition (2024)
PhD Representative
Internal MPI PhD representative, providing support and mentoring to PhDs, and organizing academic and social events (2021 - 2023)
Public Outreach
Conducted and presented experiments at the DRONGO talenfestival (2019 - 2020)
Translator
Translator for the TalkLink Blog at the MPI for Psycholinguistics, Translating English blogposts to German (2021 - 2024)
© 2025 Ronny Bujok. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0